More Softstep Feedback - Attention Bill Walker:)

[Todd Matthews <gtmatthews@gmail.com>]

My Current Softstep Situation for those interested:
So my third sofstep broke 9 days ago. First one was shipping with a 
malfunctioning key so it was sent directly back. The firmware was ruined 
on the second one because I loaded it with a new firmware but then tried 
to upload settings to the softstep with an earlier version of the 
software. Now the mini usb port is broken on the 3rd one which I can only 
attribute to applying too much pressure around '0' key. I wrote them 9 
days ago about and Sarah was very responsive and passed the email along to 
whoever deals with sales/replacement. 

That person has not gotten back to me. In 9 days. No response. Today Tom 
posted a video about their new software on the ableton forums that 
emulates key commands and the mouse. Maybe they have been consumed with 
that. I don't know.

I have my first looping gig in a couple weeks so I'm obviously ditching 
the idea of using the softstep and I have reprogrammed my trusty fcb1010 
to emulate the same setup I had with softstep. So after had spent months 
only using the softstep.......... when I went back to the fcb1010 it was 
this huge unexpected confidence booster and stress relief. it was like 
trying to run with a weighted vest, it's possible, but if you continue to 
run and take off the vest, it's like your floating as run becuase you were 
used to the vest before and it's all relative.
I could run my looping set without any technical issues. Complete 
confidence in my pedal presses. So my current assessment is that although 
fcb is huge and clunky it is much much easier for me to operate for time 
sensitive pedal presses in a looping context. I put in some considerable 
practice time with the softstep while I had a working unit. Maybe that 
would change with much of more practice with it?? YMMV



-Todd Matthews